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ReviewNatural product reports2020

Natural products as inspiration for the development of bacterial antibiofilm agents.

Roberta J Melander, Akash K Basak, Christian Melander

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In one paragraph

Review in Natural product reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 71 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
71citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
5.8field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

71 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 143 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. Imidazo[2,1-Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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  7. EthanolicMicroorganisms · 2026
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  12. Phenolic compounds fromPharmaceutical biology · 2025
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  13. Glucosinolate-Derived Metabolites fromMolecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  14. Interference ofPharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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11 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Roberta J MelanderDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA. cmelande@nd.edu.
Akash K Basak
Christian Melander
University of Notre Dame · US

Funding

SMALL MOLECULE INHIBITORS OF CARIOGENIC BIOFILMSR01DE022350 · NIDCR · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI Christian Corey Melander, Hui Wu · 2012 to 2026
$4.3M
Development of Antibiotic Adjuvants for Gram-Negative BacteriaR01AI136904 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME · PI MELANDER, CHRISTIAN COREY · 2018 to 2022
$3.7M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI136904NIDCR NIH HHS R01 DE022350
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Natural products have historically been a rich source of diverse chemical matter with numerous biological activities, and have played an important role in drug discovery in many areas including infectious disease. Synthetic and medicinal chemistry have been, and continue to be, important tools to realize the potential of natural products as therapeutics and as chemical probes. The formation of biofilms by bacteria in an infection setting is a significant factor in the recalcitrance of many bacterial infections, conferring increased tolerance to many antibiotics and to the host immune response, and as yet there are no approved therapeutics for combatting biofilm-based bacterial infections. Small molecules that interfere with the ability of bacteria to form and maintain biofilms can overcome antibiotic tolerance conferred by the biofilm phenotype, and have the potential to form combination therapies with conventional antibiotics. Many natural products with anti-biofilm activity have been identified from plants, microbes, and marine life, including: elligic acid glycosides, hamamelitannin, carolacton, skyllamycins, promysalin, phenazines, bromoageliferin, flustramine C, meridianin D, and brominated furanones. Total synthesis and medicinal chemistry programs have facilitated structure confirmation, identification of critical structural motifs, better understanding of mechanistic pathways, and the development of more potent, more accessible, or more pharmacologically favorable derivatives of anti-biofilm natural products.

Indexed as

BacteriaBiofilmsBiological ProductsMicrobial Sensitivity TestsPlantsBiological Products

Identifiers

PMID32608431
PMCPMC7677205
OpenAlexW3039910445

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Registered trials

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